Originally photographed 1980. The garden as is but was later burnt in 1983 Ash Wednesday fires. Zenza Bronica 6×4.5 format, 80mm lens, soft focus filter. Kodak 400ASA neg film which was more grainy in those days, pushed to 1600ASA to accentuate grain. ‘C type’ prints made by individualy dodging / burning and with selective area color control with each print using a dichroic head enlarger.

Negative scanned in 2001 and replicated corrections made again using Photoshop.

Viewed large this work is very grainy. I was trying to (in a photographic way) replicate a painting technique known as pointilism as was used to great effect by the master painter – Monet. However I found it more effective to use 35mm where the grain size is magnified even more. But this one still has some essence of pointilism about it – I think. Thanks.